TeamViewer denies hack after PCs hijacked, PayPal accounts drained
Found on The Register on Wednesday, 01 June 2016
In the past 24 hours, we've seen a spike in complaints from people who say their PCs and servers were taken over via the widely used remote-control tool on their machines. Even users with strong passwords and two-factor authentication enabled on their TeamViewer accounts say they were hit.
Over on Reddit, people were lining up with tales of their systems being compromised via TeamViewer, sparking fears the platform had been hacked. TeamViewer makes remote-control clients for Windows, OS X, Linux, Chrome OS, iOS and Android.
Every OS already has methods for allowing remote administration, be it SSH or RDP. Using a 3rd party software is not necessary.